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In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
Ashley Montagu
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Ashley Montagu
Age: 94 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 28
Died: 1999
Died: November 16
Anthropologist
University Teacher
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley Montagu
Israel Ehrenberg
M. F. Ashley-Montague
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The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
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... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
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The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
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The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
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Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.
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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
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One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
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The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.
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By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
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The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
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It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
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Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
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The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?
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Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
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The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
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You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.
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